Backend & Infrastructure

Best Pulumi Books

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Cover of Infrastructure as Code (3rd Edition)
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Infrastructure as Code (3rd Edition)

Kief Morris · O'Reilly0

No dedicated Pulumi book exists yet, so the honest move is the tool-agnostic IaC classic. Morris covers the design principles — immutable infrastructure, environment parity, testing pipelines — that a Pulumi program should implement regardless of which language you write it in.

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Cover of Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery
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Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery

Yevgeniy Brikman · O'Reilly0

From the author of Terraform: Up & Running — covers IaC concepts, deployment pipelines, and orchestration in a tool-agnostic way with worked examples. The conceptual grounding that makes any IaC tool (Pulumi included) make sense.

Cover of Infrastructure as Code (3rd Edition)
IntermediatePaid★ Top Pick

Infrastructure as Code (3rd Edition)

Kief Morris · O'Reilly0

No dedicated Pulumi book exists yet, so the honest move is the tool-agnostic IaC classic. Morris covers the design principles — immutable infrastructure, environment parity, testing pipelines — that a Pulumi program should implement regardless of which language you write it in.

Cover of Terraform: Up & Running (3rd Edition)
IntermediatePaid

Terraform: Up & Running (3rd Edition)

Yevgeniy Brikman · O'Reilly · 511 pages · ~13 hrs to read

Since Pulumi and Terraform share the same provider ecosystem, plan/apply model, and state concepts, this is effectively a Pulumi concepts book with different syntax. Read it for the state management and module/component design chapters — the hard lessons transfer almost 1:1.

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